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Weight change (morning of 2/20 to 2/21): +1.2 lbs
It was hard to estimate carbs in the mexican meal but I feel like I hit about 400g yesterday, but woke up feeling/looking a little soft. Could be all the salt in the food too.

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. I have done some CBL. Currently I'm doing low carb everyday in an effort to shed pounds, but I will go gack to CBL in the late spring. I haven't read the book, is it worth it?
Good luck!

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Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. I have done some CBL. Currently I'm doing low carb everyday in an effort to shed pounds, but I will go gack to CBL in the late spring. I haven't read the book, is it worth it?
Good luck!

When you say low carb, how low carb are you talking?

I had been going the lowish carb route (100-150g/day), training 4-5x week, but I seemed to have stopped around 173lbs despite lowering my cals to 2750, which is quite low for my age/weight/activity level. The first few days of introducing high carb days back in to my diet, I dropped to 170.3lbs and looked lean as hell. I think my one night of heavy beer drinking threw everything off.

Many people report fat loss and strength gain during strength accumulation. I know I'm relatively lean already, but what can I say, it's my last spring break and I wanna look guuuud. However, after spring break it's time for density bulking which claims to add muscle with minimal fat gain.

Morning felt good, but I think I was teetering between ketosis and non-ketosis all day. Brain was cloudy and I got a wicked headache in the evening - slept after class and work (5-6:30pm) but couldn't shake the tiredness enough to go out for my friend's bday. Urine smells strong but I heard that's part of ketosis....

2/22 Morning weight: 173.6 -> dropped some water weight but still feeling a bit puffy. Today is CBL for Squat day, so depending on my workout I'm gonna go conservative and stick with 1.5-2g carbs/lb of bw post workout.